The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Power tires only those who do not have it.

If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.